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DigitalOcean

Senior Software Engineer I - AI Inference Data Plane

DigitalOcean
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about 3 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$139k - $174k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Act as a technical leader on the team, driving the design and delivery of data plane components.
  • Architect and refine system design proposals for a multi-tenant AI inference cloud ecosystem.
  • Implement and optimize distributed inference hosting techniques.
  • Collaborate with Product Managers and other teams to align technical roadmaps with customer needs.
  • Build on Kubernetes-native distributed inference frameworks to enhance performance.
  • Solve distributed-systems problems unique to LLM serving.
  • Contribute to open-source projects and represent DigitalOcean in the community.
  • Coach and mentor junior engineers to foster technical excellence.
  • Maintain and operate critical, high-scale services using observability tools.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience hosting large language or multimodal models using inference engines.
  • Familiarity with distributed inference serving frameworks like llm-d or NVIDIA Dynamo.
  • Understanding of cluster-scale serving challenges and optimization techniques.
  • Proficiency in GoLang or Python and familiarity with gRPC.
  • Proven experience shipping customer-facing software products in a high-scale environment.
  • Experience integrating and building with open-source software.

Benefits

  • Access to resources for career development, including reimbursement for conferences and training.
  • Flexible time off policy and Employee Assistance Program.
  • Competitive salary with potential bonuses and equity compensation.
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses for continued growth.